Communications of the ACM
Practice Archive
The Practice archive provides access to all Practice articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
October 2009
From Communications of the ACM
Unifying Biological Image Formats with HDF5
The biosciences need an image format capable of high performance and long-term maintenance. Is HDF5 the answer?
From Communications of the ACM
A Conversation with David E. Shaw
Stanford professor Pat Hanrahan sits down with the noted hedge fund founder, computational biochemist, and (above all) computer scientist.
From Communications of the ACM
Probing Biomolecular Machines with Graphics Processors
GPU acceleration and other computer performance increases will offer critical benefits to biomedical science.